Whitefish Spokesman’s Pathetic Defense Of Puerto Rico Contract

Whitefish spokesman Ken Luce went on CNN to discuss the scandal entailing his firm. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Francesca Fiorentini, as well as Judah Friedlander, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the remark section listed below. Sign up with TYT:

" A deal got to in between the government as well as a little Montana power business situated in Interior Assistant Ryan Zinke's hometown bans the federal government from examining labor expenses or profits connected to the company's relief initiatives in Puerto Rico, inning accordance with a leaked duplicate of the agreement.

A copy of the deal gotten by reporter Ken Klippenstein discloses that the government isn't permitted to "examine or evaluate the cost as well as profit components" under the agreement, allowing the business higher discretion as well as secrecy for just how it spends the $300 million to recover power to the island. Puerto Rico is restoring after 2 significant storms eliminated the majority of the island's electric grid.

Whitefish authorized the take care of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which likewise prohibits the government from making "any kind of insurance claim against Service provider pertaining to delayed completion of job."

Whitefish has been the target of hefty criticism over inquiries about why the little company, which just had two permanent staff members when the storm struck, was chosen for such a rewarding government contract to help tidy up the island."

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Philip Hall The different is it in your face corruption. Normal we don’t hear about this stuff months or years later. Trump broke a constitutional law within his first month in office. Just by going to his resorts on tax payers money and conducted business deal with foreign governments.

Sadly Trump didn’t start this. No Hoover with his black mailing, Nixon with his spying and watergate, Reagan committing treason funding terrorist against congress, George Bush senior toppling over a democracy and training Bin Laden, George Bush Jr with too much to even count. No No NO Republicans have been doing what Trumps been doing for ages he just looks uglier doing it and without the decorum putting up a veneer no one else wants to put up with it. Trumps not some Aberration flown in from the underbelly of racism and fascists overtones of the nation. No He is just a symptom of the kettle boiling over due to the corrosion of our Republic and the foundations meant to keep such evil at bay.

Puerto Rico could but i dont think they know the situation they also might not get any help afterwards if they turn this down if it actually goes through it’ll probably treated as if they don’t want help in general.

THE very definition of graft and corruption and THE worst kind of example. Again, the Trump administration thinks we’re all stupid and they may be right, if this is allowed to stand. I hope the Mueller team reaches out and adds this nasty bit to their To Do List.

The blatant nature of this is almost laughable. Did they think no one would notice????

Here is what will happen: The 300 million will balloon to 600 million before the contractor is fired with only half the job done… and done poorly. It happened all the time in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is what happens on a no-bid insider contract. And in 2018 I’ll guarantee you those 2 people running this business will be building themselves 10 million dollar homes.